Category: education
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We are allowed to make things up
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You can decide to make things up. And we will need you to. Find new ways to look after the well-being of your neighbours, to be guardians of our wildlife, to support local businesses and economies. Go out there and change the world. Because we need you to, and you are, most of all, allowed…
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Futures Through Design – 2026
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I am delighted to announce that Futures Through Design, the three-day course I designed and led with with Rob Phillips and Gem Barton at the Royal College of Art in London this summer, is returning in late February 2026. There are lots of reasons I’m really pleased we’re able to run it again, but right…
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How to play Mundane Superhero
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I was writing up a longer blog post, reflecting on the recent Innovation and Future Thinking course which Toban Shadlyn and I ran last month, and I wanted to quickly nod to Mundane Superhero. It’s a workshop warmup game I came up with maybe ten years ago. But it turns out I’ve never written it…
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Taking Care of Water: IEDIFT 2023
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📢 Calling all futurists, changemakers, change-seekers, innovators 📢 . Come spend two weeks this summer at IED in Barcelona attending the Innovation and Future Thinking course. We will be bringing together a group of inspirational local and international lecturers, immersing ourselves in the local and regional context through a series of site visits, and applying…
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Practical starting points for a polymath
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I’ve been reading The Polymath by Peter Burke over the holidays. I make no pretence of being any sort of polymath in the sense Burke describes, but as a generalist who likes diving in and out of various disciplines the subject definitely appealed. It didn’t disappoint, and there are some things in particular I thought…
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The Futures and Follies of the Full-Stack Habitat
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I’m delighted to be back at IED in Barcelona again this summer leading the Innovation and Future Thinking summer course. We’re bringing together the usual gang of inspirational lecturers and local innovators to explore a theme across the two weeks, starting on July 16th. More details on that soon, but in a change to the regular approach, we’re sharing…
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The Oliver Twist
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Last week, after two days of teaching at the RCA with the Design Products gang, I also took part in a Future of Manufacturing edition of the School of Design’s evening lecture series. This involved three short talks and a panel with Asif Moghal from Autodesk, Gavin Munro from Full Grown and myself. The below isn’t…
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How does #thechairgame work?
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We’ve had a good sign-up rate for The Chair Game tomorrow, Friday 22nd April, at the V&A Performance Festival. We gather at 1:45pm for a 2-4pm game, after which we’ll repair to a local pub. Come along if you can, and sign-up here so we have a sense of numbers. But how does it work…
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The Chair Game – Live at the V&A
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“This is the year of The Chair Game“, I said to Rob, over a pint after an evening’s play in London Bridge. He’d just spent two hours running the game for all of us who were new to it, save for Clarisa. It was her fault, apparently. She’d been in a workshop Rob was doing…
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Delaminating Reality – a week at IED Barcelona
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I spent last week teaching on the first week of the Innovation & Future Thinking summer course at the IED in Barcelona with Scott Smith. You can listen to us talking about what transpired here on a little podcast we made there… …and I thought I’d just throw up a few photos on here too,…
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Folksy Summer School
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The folks at Folksy have just put up a lovely wee video which takes me back to all the brilliant people I met and things we talked about when I was up there… This was the Folksy Summer School 2013 from Folksy on Vimeo. Just the tonic as summer gives way to the falling leaves…
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Cohort: Our Oxford Project
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We spent last week at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, taking over their innovation space, creating exploratory workshops and experiments with the folks there, and subsequent event with some alumni of the prestigious Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme (OSLP). I mentioned it in a previous post. Here’s just a quick video of what we…
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